The share of young people who are Not in Employment, Education or Training (the so called NEETs) rose in most OECD countries as a result of sweeping job losses in the wake of the economic crisis. In 2015, the number of NEETs OECD-wide stood at 40.0 million, over two-thirds of whom were not actively looking for work (inactive NEETs). Spain, Italy and Greece experienced a second recession in 2011-12, and the share of employed youth is only just leveling out. Other countries – such as Estonia, Hungary and Iceland – have already recovered, or are on their way to recovering, their pre-crisis levels of youth employment.

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